108 Mr. A. White on a new suhgenus of Calandridse. 
longer than the other four, which are cup-shaped and all punc- 
tured ; club fusiform, apparently of one joint, the end slightly 
pointed. 
Beak nearly as thick as the head, considerably longer than the 
thorax, gradually bent and deflexed at the tip, the sides com- 
pressed and channeled from before the eye to within a short 
distance of the base of the mandibles, upper part more or less 
rounded j the under side, except just at the tip, thickly clothed 
• with close thick-set hairs, much like a tooth-brush, the middle 
line seemingly with fewer hairs or perhaps free from them. 
Eijes largish, oblong, nearly straight behind, somewhat pointed 
above, slightly rounded in front where the beak comes, and 
nearly as much separated below as above, the space between 
them being considerable. 
Thorax subovate, convex all round, upper surface behind some- 
what depressed, the front part slightly strangulated ; scutellum 
longish, narrow. Prothorax below, just in front of the inser- 
tion of the fore-legs, with a prominent dagger-shaped keel. 
Calandra [Hyposarothra) imperatrix, White. 
Head and antennse white, tip of beak black, club of antennae 
black, the other joints punctured with brown; of an obscure 
whitish colour, with seven dusky 
brownish longitudinal bands 
on the thorax, one and the 
widest down the middle, three 
on each side of the thorax, the 
intermediate two joined in front; 
each of the elytra with a large 
dusky brown patch intersected 
by a cross, which at the top 
emits two white branches, con- 
nected with the white of the 
base and sides ; pygidium with 
a large oval patch on the mid- 
dle, and some brownish dots ; 
the sides of three of the seg- 
ments of the abdomen with a Calandra (Hyposarothra) imperatrix. 
blackish brown patch ; some of the mesosternal plates punctured 
and marked with a largish pale brown patch. 
The femora and tibi^ of each leg thickly furnished on the in- 
side with reddish yellow hairs ; legs clouded and dotted with 
brownish ; tarsi with the claws and last joint black. Head and 
beak above finely punctured, excepting down the middle, where 
it is smooth. Thorax above with many scattered punctures and 
